Interesting travel day… We started with a hike and I managed to get a really bad tick bite. But I wanna go into the details, but this guy was pretty far under my skin. I had to do a little bit of surgery to get him out and given it was a Sunday I wasn’t quite sure how this was gonna work out, but I was able to call our doctors answering service and was able to get the anti-lyme antibiotic before I left on my trip

I got on the road at about 1230 and drove down to Chappaqua to meet up with my friends Rich, and Rashi. Richard is a dear old friend.. And technically, he’s my boss and my Ibm emeritus role. Above all things he’s a brilliant and kind and creative and fun person. Rashi is also beautiful, wise and fun to talk to. I got to their house around 6:30 and rossi had made richard’s favorite food.: Idly.. They are rice and white lentil buns that you cover in sambar.. Which is like a spicy lentil goo. So basically it’s lentils on lentils. I love it. It’s very commonly eaten at southern India for breakfast but I agree. It’s great for dinner.

Rashi is such a wonderful cook.!

We had a really wonderful time talking about life, kids, food, politics, AI… You name it. It was great !

at the end of the night Ruchir and Rashi were lettign me stay in their daughter Isha’s room (last time id stayed in their other daughter Anika’s room ). Isha is finishing up her PhD in computer science at MIT and Anika is a Senior there..  so their room were free !

today we also got this great picture of Gabe and Mya in Bamberg !..  So nice to seem them  having a great time together !

TOmorrow i’m going to an IBM Internal conference that Ruchir is organizing. I’m very excited about the topic and I’m also very excited about seeing so many old friends

nite all, nite sam
-me

Busy spring day.. came down stairs to see this picutture of our old kitchen circa 1986.. its where our mudroom is now.. braught back some nice memories.. 

then dian and I toolk a hike up the sap lines next to the adaptive mountain biking trails.. beutuful trails connected to teh cross state catamount trail.. not much visited I think

next job was to photograph our old trampline.. we’re moving it on after many years of jumping kids, and sleeping dads (I used to take work calls on this thing and often fell asleep). .. free to a good home !

then the ulimate rites of spring (requires stravinsky soundtrac).. diane and I took down most of the down stairs srorm windows, 3′ x 7[‘ aa12 panes of old glass and ancient frames.. its always an adventure.. its nice to have thhme down.. not only can we let in some air.. but the sounds come in now 

Then I took apart my old travel tesla coil.. it went to a hackathon with a friend and somehow broke.. I opened it to discover both IGBT’s in its high voltage half bridge were blown .. as was the fuse that had literally exploded. I took about 50 pics to see what kind of IGBT replacements.. and after much work with light and camera p;acement got a decent pic and ordered replacements

then later in the afternoon we met deb o at the kennys for a really nice dinner.. One cool thing is that Jen.. whos a wonderful potter’.. had aquired this beautiful raku vase,., she had soem story about its hsitory and thoguth it had been amde by my freind Steve in Boston. Jen knew of Steve because he made a chawan (japanese tea bowl) every day for a year after his son Jared had died from brain cancer.  

Jen was making pottery daily in memory of her wonderful daughter.. and our friend ..Marie when she died in 2021.

It was such a strange coincidence that Jen came to have this vase. I’ll check with steve to confirm its his and get the story of how it got to be in Vermont

we had a really nice time hanging out on the kenney’s porch watching the wildlife.. woodchuck, deer and some pretty amazing birds… what a special place . 

great day !

nite all, nite sam
-me

took a nice run this morning and saw our first trilliums !  spring is almost here !

ran into gabes freind Mitch .. he jsut joinen BETA.. so many new folks !

I also ran into my friend Emma who is the girlfriend of my friend Derek. She just mentioned casually that her brother and sister-in-law’s cat named “techno” had been seen coming down to our house frequently… Which is strange cause we’re almost a mile away. She brought out her phone and showed us AirTag map that showed techno right on her front step. I couldn’t believe it because our game cameras that we used to watch for mice and rat. Infiltrations kept catching pictures of this cat at all times of the night… 3 AM 1 AM whatever. We knew it was a pet cat because it had a collar and bell… It was so funny. I brought up pictures of the cat we were seeing and sure enough it was techno! 


How weird is that?

speaking of tracking.. I can still see Novas dog collar tracker.. its great to see her having fun in germany 

still on the topic of roving animals.. we caught this little guy in our attic late this evening.. I escotted him into the woods a couple of miles away. hope he likes his new home 

nite all, nite sam
-me

I had a meeting over at Hackclub today and was excited to see their new home. They’ve always worked out of this old house on the corner of Route seven in Shelburne but now they are in a gleaming cool retro icehouse right down on battery Street. They just moved in but it is an amazing space.

This afternoon Diane and I took our neighbor Oaklee for a walk on the river shore. . Oaklee is a very energetic Shepherd poodle mix. She is so fun to play with and so active.

Walkign Ooaklee is really helping with our doggie withdrawal

nite all. nite sam
-me